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I've been using Windows Media Player to burn CDs, but there's a couple of things about it that irritate me. It inserts a two-second gap between tracks, which is fine normally but not when those tracks are supposed to be seamlessly mixed together. Also, if the tracks come from lots of different sources you end up with very different recording levels making the volume leap wildly from one track to another. Is there a better program I can download to sort these things out?

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

nero.

― god made dirt and dirt bust ass (papa november), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks good, but expensive.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Try Roxio Easy CD Creator. Alternatively, try searching tucows.com for freeware.

Good luck

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 19 November 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxio is poor quality software (bloated, has a tendency to crash) but it gets the job done. It must be hard to write good CD burning software, there's so much shit out there.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

$5 Nero:
http://www.softwareoutlet.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=4406

(I haven't read the fine print..)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

download nero for free from the site and then just get a $erial.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon.....$5 is a good price. And I don't see any fine print.

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a free one that gets mentioned often at hydrogenaudio.org:

http://www.burrrn.net/

I haven't used it myself, Roxio Easy CD Creator came with my burner and it works well enough for me.

― todd (todd), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

have a good antivirus program? if so, find and d/l kazaa lite. then type in nero. d/l it, instal, and put in the crack. thats what i do for everything.

― rtret, Friday, 19 November 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

OK I need one for Mac that won't put the damn gaps in between the songs.

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Friday, 19 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought you could set iTunes to put no gap? Only across an entire CD, mind. I got a trial of shareware Dragon Burn that allowed one to vary the gap for each track.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 19 November 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I know nothing. I use iTunes. But the people who I know who know are the ones who swear by TOAST.

― Acme (acme), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Exact Audio Copy. Freeware.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 20 November 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Any of these are worth the investment: http://users.pandora.be/satcp/softwarecdrw01.htm

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"have a good antivirus program? if so, find and d/l kazaa lite. then type in nero. d/l it, instal, and put in the crack. thats what i do for everything. "

"download nero for free from the site and then just get a $erial"

Put in the crack? Get a $erial? I have no idea what these words mean.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

For Mac OS X, Missing Media Burner is the best ripping/burning application. It's also free. Not as easy to use as Toast, as MMB is mostly a command line app, but it does use CD Paranoia for secure ripping.

Of course, with Bit Torrent and some patience, you can find Toast easily enough.

― lefty, Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I keep trying to find a non-Nero (which hasn't been working for me - it keeps adding pops and gaps) program that can create a seamless audio CD on a PC, but to no avail! Anyone?

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

re: Gaps. This used to get me, until I found out that you will always get a (very small) gap with burning MP3s. But if they are WAV files, you can eliminate the gap.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

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